Tanfield House

Door open days

Edinburgh

Large administration offices for Standard Life Co, designed by Michael Laird & Partners. Opened in 1991, it incorporates the facade of Tanfield Hall, site of the first Free Church assembly in 1843. The foyer and hall, with its stupendous Holywood-style staircase, will be open. Outside Gerald Laing's Axis Mundi represents the apotheosis of the five wise virgins, finding an obelisk pointing the way to heaven.